Thankfully there is a year  for someone to decide to run a hard-hitting campaign and get up to speed. Here’s another idea: quit subjecting the American people to two YEARS of campaigning, get your act together BEFORE you come out and let us have it in the six months prior to the election. If you’re what the country needs, we’ll elect you. We’ve done it before!

As an aside, ABC News reprints this Forbes article with attributions so minor the casual reader might mistake it for original content.

Note: the above link doesn’t include a link to the sampling, which was 46% Democratic, 29% Republican and 4% Independent. The article states: The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted May 5-9 by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,001 adults nationwide and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points. The laughtrack was disabled as well.

(Note to Jacob Weisberg:  Titling a column “Why Fox News is Un-American” is probably not going to staunch the hemorrhaging at Newsweak Newsweek, just sayin’.  A review here puts the smackdown on Weisberg:  “Commentator Jacob Weisberg assumes that Fox’s rightward tilt results from a disingenuous desire to boost ratings, when it more likely springs from a philosophical perspective that is so foreign to Weisberg that he takes refuge in cynicism.”)

Recently, Mara was under some pressure from the higher ups at NPR to “reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network’s political bias, two sources familiar with the effort said.”  Politico’s report on the matter cites an anonymous source as saying the White House’s recent campaign against Fox News as prompting the request.  Liasson declined.

Of course, now the little tiff between the WH and FNC is pretty much over, although I’m sure you won’t see Chris Wallace (who called the West Wing a bunch of “crybabies”) and Robert Gibbs having a beer together anytime soon.

” ‘NPR has its own issues in trying to convince people that, ‘Look, we’re down the middle,’ the source said.” You bet they do. Asking someone not to appear on Fox is just one of them.  Good on you, Mara, for telling the prigs at NPR where they can stuff it – in the nicest possible way, of course.